I do not want to die. . . until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me until the last small twig has grown.
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
You could not step twice into the same rivers; for other waters are ever flowing on to you.
Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. . . The truly wise person is colorblind.
God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: “This is my country.”
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.